To help enterprise computing customers accelerate datacenter migration efforts, Hitachi said that it was teaming up with Transitive so that it could provide Transitive's QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux on the company's BladeSymphony 1000 and 320 blade server products running on Intel Xeon and Itanium 2 processors. The partnership allows native Solaris/SPARC applications to run on industry standard Intel To help enterprise computing customers accelerate datacenter migration efforts, Hitachi said that it was teaming up with Transitive so that it could provide Transitive’s QuickTransit for Solaris/SPARC-to-Linux on the company’s BladeSymphony 1000 and 320 blade server products running on Intel Xeon and Itanium 2 processors.The partnership allows native Solaris/SPARC applications to run on industry standard Intel Xeon and Itanium based platforms. By running on top of the operating system, the QuickTransit technology allows applications that have been compiled for one operating system and processor to run on servers that use a different processor and operating system, without requiring any source code or binary changes.Additionally, the partnership brings enterprise customers Hitachi BladeSymphony’s embedded server virtualization capability called Virtage. The technology allows multiple operating system environments to operate on one or more blade servers, helping to increase server utilization and optimize server workloads. The specific benefits of the solution are to: Enable users of Solaris/SPARC applications to run applications on BladeSymphony 1000 and 320 without application rewrite, recompile or complex low-level changes Break the hardware/software dependency scenario Support multiple SPARC instruction sets introducing support for 32-bit and 64-bit Solaris/SPARC applications Maximize return on investment by correlating equipment spend to lowered maintenance costs using Transitive’s QuickTransit and to greater efficiency using Hitachi’s Virtage Provide complete end-user transparency allowing users to be productive without concerns for the underlying hardware configurations.“Transitive’s partnership with Hitachi Server Systems creates a hardware-independent, enterprise-class solution that provides a number of benefits datacenter managers are searching for – from efficient processing, to managed and robust resource allocation, to reduced complexity,” said Bob Wiederhold, CEO and president of Transitive. “Hitachi has built a line of servers that handle a multitude of tasks, and now, with Transitive’s QuickTransit technology, Hitachi’s BladeSymphony solutions will supply further capacity, delivering results no matter what the constraints might be.” Software Development